We packed up or bags in the car and drove out of Slovenia. It was misty and mysterious until we left the national park. After a while, we were getting restless. We wanted something exciting to happen, but instead we were stuck in traffic. The border between Slovenia and Croatia seemed like it was just around the corner, but it took forever to get there. When we finally got there, it took a while to get our passport stamped. It was strange, because there was another customs 100m from the first one that we had to go through too. In Croatia, we stopped at a nature reserve and took a hike. The hike was to a waterfall that would have been beautiful if it was spring.
Cliff that the waterfall would come down if it was wet.
Luckily, there was a small pool that had horsehair worms, fire belleyed toads, and salamanders. We caught the toads. One toad was hugging another.
Looking for the toads
Catching the toads
Toad eggs
The hugging toads
The walk back also had a grape vine farm. It looked like Santa Barbará and Cape Town.
The town we were to stay in was shabby and industrial. The paint on the buildings was peeling and some building were wrecked because of the Croatian revolution from Yugoslavia. Every single building had graffiti.
One building that had pictures of primates on it had its whole side torn off. Half of the staircase had been destroyed so it was impossible to walk upstairs (not that we went in it ).
I am glad we didn't have to spend the night there.
We parked in a parking garage and walked to a coffe shop that had ice cream. Sam got coffe and I got NY strawberry cheese cake. Croatian ice cream is the best ice cream in the world. Our apartment ( or our compartment as Sam says ) had a view of the ugly industrial town.
For dinner we had pasta.
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